Naked Ambition & Breakaway Glory – Five Passes Finale! Arthur's Pass National Park, Canterbury ⛅

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Probably thought, “let the old 62-year-old guy with dad watts burn out.” Classic underestimation. I carved out a decent gap and just as I was settling into my breakaway groove, two blokes from Nelson bridged up. They were keen, strong, and generous—they let me sweep up the sprint points.\n\nWe mashed the pedals, dropping one of the lads on the rolling terrain. The two of us held firm up the long 3% drag, clinging on like sandflies to a sweaty calf. Eventually, the big boys from the peloton reeled us in just before the brutal final 3km KOM wall. My teammate allan broomhall in yellow lit it up like a Roman candle. Absolute weapon.\n\nMe? I sat up, took in the view, and ground my way to the summit. Not my terrain, not my fight. But I’d bagged a sprint and a hell of a good yarn.\n\nStage Two: Castle Rock to Somewhere Short (13km)\nPost-lunch roll. Too short to cook up anything spicy, and everyone’s legs were toast. Watched Alan just pip Alan Steel (yep, two Alans) at the KOM line.\n\nThen… chaos.\nTurns out, we were meant to ride down the hill in the buff. I’d barely rolled off before two nearly-nude women flew past me, whooping like banshees and egging me on.\n\nRight then: stripped roadside, tried to artfully wrap my kit around one hand (fail), and launched into a full-send, full-send naked descent. 10°C, damp, and very breezy in all the wrong places. Let’s just say aero gains were not the focus.\n\nStage Three: Final Team Time Trial (25km-ish)\nRefuelled with some primo ham, rolled to the line, and promptly agreed with a couple of other squads to neutral chat-mode. We TT’d like a bunch of blokes cruising to a café stop—yarning, laughing, and soaking up the final k’s of an epic tour.\n\n⸻\n\nWrap-Up Thoughts:\n600km over 8 stages – West Coast to Canterbury and back. What a ride.\n✔️ 2nd in the KOM on Day One with Alan Steel\n✔️ Survived heatstroke on Day Two’s 220km monster\n✔️ Nearly snagged a stage win on Day Three in a two-man break\n✔️ Took sprint points from the break on Day Four\n✔️ Participated in a semi-voluntary naked descent\n✔️ Finished strong and smiling\n\nFive Passes was an absolute treat—bags sorted, food sorted, roads epic. All I had to do was ride and recover. Now, off to the prizegiving. 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